Modern industrial automation software design: principles and real-world applications

349 Pages·2006·19.97 MB·English

by  Lingfeng Wang, Kay CHen Tan

Modern Industrial Automation
Sofhvare Design
Principles and Real- World Applications
Lingfeng Wang
Kay Chen Tan
IEEE
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Sofiare Design
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Modern Industrial Automation
Sofhvare Design
Principles and Real- World Applications
Lingfeng Wang
Kay Chen Tan
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Contents
Preface xxi
Aclcnow ledgments xxiii
Acronyms xxv
Part I Design Principles of Modern Industrial Automation
Systems
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Developmental Trends 2
1.2 Classifications and Existing Products 3
1.3 Functionality of Industrial Automation Systems 5
1.4 About the Book 7
2 Virtual Instrumentation 9
2.1 Introduction 9
2.2 Characteristics of VXI Instruments 13
2.3 VXI Plug&Play (VPP) Specification 14
2.4 Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) 16
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2.4.1 VISA model structure 17
2.4.2 VISA characteristics 18
2.5 Programming platforms 19
2.5.1 Textual programming 20
2.5.2 Visual programming 20
2.5.3 Graphical programming 21
2.6 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Network (PLPGN)
Monitoring 23
2.6.1 Overall structure design 24
2.7 Hardware and Software Design 26
2.7.1 Development requirements 26
2.7.2 Development environment 27
2.7.3 Configurations of system hardware and
software 27
2.8 Summary 29
3 Component-Based Measurement Systems 31
3.1 Introduction 31
3.2 Component Technology 32
3.3 Component-Based Industrial Automation
Software 35
3.4 Writing Component 36
3.5 Case Study 1 36
3.6 Case Study 2 38
3.6.1 Definition of base class of instruments 39
3.6.2 UI base class of VIs 40
3.7 Summary 41
4 Object- Oriented Software Engineering 43
4.1 Software Development Models 44
4.2 0 bject Orientation 48
4.2.1 OOA/OOD 48
4.2.2 Advantages 51
5 Graphical User Interface Design 53
6 Database Management 59
6.1 Database Systems 60
6.2 Relational Database 61
CONTENTS vii
6.3 Structured Query Language (SQL) 64
6.4 Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 66
7 Software Testing 69
7.1 Software and Industrial Automation 69
7.2 Software Testing Strategies 71
7.2.1 Black- box testing 72
7.2.2 White-box testing 73
7.3 Software Testing Processes and Steps 73
7.3.1 Unit testing 75
7.3.2 Integration testing 76
7.3.3 Verification testing 78
7.3.4 System testing 78
7.3.5 Validation 79
7.4 Software Performance Testing 79
7.4.1 Availability testing 80
7.4.2 Reliability testing 81
7.4.3 Survivability testing 81
7.4.4 Flexibility testing 81
7.4.5 Stress testing 82
7.4.6 Security testing 82
74.7 Usability testing 82
7.4.8 Maintainability testing 83
7.5 Software Maintenance 84
7.6 Summary 85
Part 11 Real- World Applications
8 Overview 91
9 An Object-Oriented Reconfigurable Software 93
9.1 Introduction 94
9.1.1 Evolution of reconfigurable software 94
9.2 Design Requirements, Development Environments,
and Methodologies 105
9.2.1 Design requirements 105
9.2.2 Development environments 106
9.2.3 Development methodologies 107